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‘Checkout,' ‘Fauda’ test the appetite for Israeli spy stories after October 7

Two productions arriving in the United States this month are testing whether or not there is still an appetite for Israeli spy stories in the post-October 7 world.

|BySTEWART AIN/JTA
Lior Raz and Melanie Laurent in season five of Fauda.
Director Yuval Abraham and Director Rachel Szor winners of the Special Jury Prize for "Naza" attend a photocall on the red carpet following the closing ceremony of the 83rd Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido on September 12, 2026.

Trusting your audience: What NAZA could learn from Fauda's latest season - editorial

Israeli self-criticism has never been absent from Israeli culture. Fauda itself is proof.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Lior Raz and Mélanie Laurent in season five of Fauda.

Fifth season of 'Fauda' sparks viral international reactions to October 7-focused episodes

Within a day of its release on Netflix, the series had already ranked seventh among the platform’s 10 most-watched shows in 43 countries and was leading to new understandings of the massacre.

|ByMAARIV ONLINE
YAAKOV ZADA-DANIEL (right) and Lior Raz in Season Five of ‘Fauda.'

What to watch this week: ‘Fauda,’ ‘The Sixteenth Sheep,’ and 9/11 tributes

TV Time: Fauda’s final season confronts October 7 and the cost of revenge, alongside new documentaries on Israeli music and 9/11.

|ByHANNAH BROWN

An Israeli celebrity wedding exposes difficulties for Arab-Jewish couples

Israel does not recognize interfaith weddings performed in the country, so Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian couples, and others, have to go abroad to be officially married.

NOVEMBER 30, 2018ByBEN SALES/JTA
Actor Tzachi Halevy and TV anchor Lucy Aharish at their wedding, October 10, 2018

CBS boards Israeli show from 'Fauda' writers

"District Y," about police force in Jaffa, will air on Israeli public broadcaster.

OCTOBER 25, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
A scene from season 2 of Fauda

Belev Echad dinner to honor stars of “Fauda" and more

Dinner to be chaired by Daniel Bernstein, Thom Waye, Gabriel Plotkin, Yaara Bank-Plotkin, Daniel Bergstein, Abhay Deshpande and Michele Shapiro and Martin Nussbaum.

OCTOBER 22, 2018BySPONSORED
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Netflix buys Keshet's 'When Heroes Fly'

The 10-episode first season will become available on the streaming platform early next year.

OCTOBER 15, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
A scene from Keshet's 'When Heroes Fly'

Jewish ‘Fauda’ star sparks controversy over marriage to Muslim news anchor

"The pain of assimilation around the world is destroying the Jewish nation," said Interior Minister Arye Deri.

OCTOBER 11, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
News anchor Lucy Aharish [L] and Actor Tzahi Halevi [R]

TV's Lucy Aharish weds 'Fauda' star Tzachi Halevy

The pair had been carrying on a secret romance for several years.

OCTOBER 11, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
News anchor Lucy Aharish [L] and Actor Tzahi Halevi [R]

The chaotic language evaluating ‘Fauda’

How Sayed Kashua misses the mark on the popular Israeli TV drama.

AUGUST 29, 2018ByFRANCK SALAMEH
An Israeli soldier runs during clashes in the West Bank

‘Fauda’ head screenwriter teaching at Rutgers this fall

Moshe Zonder will teach “Screenwriting for Television” in the Creative Writing Program, as part of the Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artists Program.

AUGUST 29, 2018ByJTA
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'Operation Finale' praised and criticized as it hits theaters

Fauda's Lior Raz tells KAN that his Hollywood debut was nothing short of 'a dream'.

AUGUST 23, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
A scene from 'Operation Finale' of the Mossad operation to hunt down and capture Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann

Netflix picks up new show from 'Fauda' creators

‘Hit and Run’ is set to get a 10-episode first season in 2020.

JULY 19, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
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